Mania Abdi

PhD Student

Mania Abdi
  • MS, Sharif University of Technology – Iran
  • BS, Amirkabir University of Technology – Iran

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Mania Abdi is a doctoral student in Northeastern University's Khoury College of Computer Sciences, advised by Professor Peter Desnoyers. Abdi researches and improves the performance of data applications by caching data. Her current research is focused on improving the performance of big data applications by caching data. Abdi is also working on designing a framework for SMR drives.

Before joining Northeastern, Abdi worked as a system software engineer for seven years, focusing on device drivers and kernel module design. She earned her undergraduate degree from Amirkabir University of Technology, and her master's from Sharif University of Technology – both in her hometown of Iran. Within her research, Abdi would like to improve storage performance and scalability for data centers. Going forward, she plans to address the I/O bottleneck restrictions on the performance improvement of large-scale computations.